Traveling has less to do with seeing things than experiencing them.

But a risk-free life wasn't much of a life, really, and if she was going to change, she might as well start now.

I do love you. I mean, love has nothing to do with this.

There's no love like the first.

You're a wonderful person, Jamie. You're beautiful, you're kind, you're gentle...you're everything that I'd like to be. If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.

America was in full swing now, all the papers said so, and people were rushing forward, leaving behind the horrors of war. She understood the reasons, but they were rushing, like Lon, toward long hours and profits, neglecting the things that brought beauty to the world.

The search for God's presence was much of a mystery as God himself, and what was God if not a mystery?